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TIL that there are no commercial king crab farming operations because, in part, these crabs go through a violently cannibalistic adolescence and have to be housed individually to survive it, which is too expensive large scale.

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Br4xx TIL mulberries are more closely related to figs than to raspberries or blackberries
wL0vM TIL the famine in China during the 1958-1962 Great Leap Forward was so bad there were several cases of cannibalism ocurring
QplL TIL in the 50s a white man disguised himself as a black man and traveled to some of the most racially segregated parts of America. He found blatant acts of racism almost everywhere he went, and published a book about his experiences called Black Like Me.
M0nb TIL That America has only been at peace for 21 years since 1776.
7yLZ TIL in 1931, Olympic medalist Betty Robinson, mistakenly identified as dead, was placed in the trunk of a car, and driven to the morgue. She recovered. Won gold again in 1936